The philosopher must be sufficiently perverse to play the game of truth and error badly: this perversity, which operates in paradoxes, allows him to escape the grasp of categories. But aside from this, he must be sufficiently ‘ill-humored’ to persist in his confrontation with stupidity, to remain motionless to the point of stupefaction in order …
Tools: a clarification
There seems to be a misunderstanding here. Drugs are tools, technologies of the self, material objects that allow individuals to work on their bodies and minds in certain ways. Of course, they haven’t always been seen in this way, and they certainly haven’t always been available to the degree or in the same way as …
Legitimate patients
A relatively young man hobbles, in good spirits, into a medical marijuana cooperative. He’s proud of having made it to the co-op today, his new aluminum cane giving him the style, confidence, and stability to find new places to interrogate, explore, and (yes) even to obtain his medicine. And mirrored windows notwithstanding, this place showed …
